Quotes About Devotion

Much has been written about the character of Louis IX—all of it good. Even his staunchest enemies agreed that Louis was a man of integrity whose moral character was unassailable and whose devotion to justice was legendary. Like all men of his class, Louis was raised in a culture of chivalry that celebrated the crusade as the greatest use of Christian arms. It is no exaggeration to say that the liberation of Jerusalem was the single most cherished goal in his life.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

Love descends better than ascends, and so does the love of Christ, who indeed is love itself, and therefore comes down to us himself; "I will come again and receive you unto myself" (says Christ), "that so where I am, you may be also." That last part of his speech gives the reason of it, and also divulges his entire affection.

What female heart can gold despise?What cat's averse to fish?

Rather, the reason for our loving surrender to God is that we desire to be able to love as we are loved

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

A local cult called Christianity.

Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

Give me romance, and I'll dispense With the rodomontade of common sense.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

I love thee — I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.

We do not worship, we do not adore [saints], for fear that we should bow down to the creature rather than to the Creator, but we venerate the relics of the martyrs in order the better to adore Him whose martyrs they are

the early Christians venerated the saints, their relics, and sacred images.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.

Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.

he'd spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn't matter in the slightest. All that mattered was that he loved God. He told me that once he knew this he was home free.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.